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Der amerikanische Soldat / Janus Films ; [presented by] Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation ; Produktion, antiteater ; ein Film von Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
LIBRA DVD 025 322
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Early Fassbinder Series 39,
- Eclipse from Criterion Collection. Series 39. Early Fassbinder
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Drama.
- Murder for hire--Drama.
- Police--Germany--Munich--Drama.
- Police corruption--Germany--Munich--Drama.
- Murder for hire.
- Police.
- Police corruption.
- Veterans.
- Germany--Munich.
- Genre:
- Gangster films.
- Action and adventure films.
- Crime films.
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- English title on container and disc label: American soldier
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
- Language Note:
- German dialogue with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, region 1.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- In this virtuoso deconstruction of gangster movie conventions, a Vietnam veteran becomes a hit man for the Munich police.
- Participant:
- [Karl Scheydt], Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm, Marius Aicher, Margarethe von Trotta, Ulli Lommel, Katrin Schaake, Ingrid Caven, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Kurt Raab, Irm Hermann, Gustl Datz, [Rainer Werner Fassbinder].
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Dietrich Lohmann, Herbert Paetzold ; music, Peer Raben ; editor, Thea Eymèsz ; song "So much tenderness" by Fassbinder/Raben ; sung by Günther Kaufmann ; [art direction by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab].
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1970 under German title : Amerikanische Soldat
- (1.33:1) aspect ratio.
- Issued as part of 5-disc set with Katzelmacher, Gods of the plague, Love is colder than death, Beware of the holy whore : Early Fassbinder
- ISBN:
- 9781604657708
- 1604657707
- 9781604657661
- 1604657669
- OCLC:
- 855916091
- Publisher Number:
- ECL176 Criterion Collection (set)
- ECL180 Criterion Collection
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